Fanta is probably the worst example I can think of for having a different recipe depending on where it is. So maybe whatever is wrong with Fanta is just where they live.

On the graphical installer if you give a root password, sudo isn’t configured. If you don’t sudo is installed and configured with the default user as admin.

Sounds like you already have the alternative answer, now you just need the courage and the niche community to go with it.

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What’s maddening is even this pricing is about what it costs off the shelf in the UK on a private prescription, no insurance involved, and like a 10th of that through the NHS. Like they don’t even try to be consistent about it.

Uh. We have both of these. The home cupboard and the guest cupboard.

Also. Apple has alt app stores in other regions. Data transfer on Apple hasn’t needed iTunes for a long time, and it will read USB-c hard drives and keys. I don’t disagree with you that iOS is more locked down, just pointing out the gap keeps getting smaller. I have a Jolla pre order in, because I’m a fan of open hardware, but it will likely be my android phone that I drop in favour of it.

Just them. I wasn’t really arguing for or against subsidies though, just the absurdity of it being called out so often when Tesla et al got subsidised too. You can split hairs all you like on the nature of those subsidies, but they absolutely did get them. They also didn’t have to give up a share of the company to get them, unlike all the Chinese automakers, but again that’s another complex issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Not at release. It came later though for certain chipsets.

Nope. Buyer and sell side. Federal interest free loan, state business tax credits etc - they got 200 million pounds in grants in the UK alone. Buyer side was on top. Hell they lied about sales in Canada to try and claw in undeserved subsidies before the programme closed.

Always amused at the “Subsidised” cracks with the Chinese automakers like Tesla wasn’t subsidised up the wazoo. It’s like the only crime is passing on the saving. Not saying you are doing that here, but it’s odd it comes up so much.

What’s the problem with drives? Is it the required mount point? I have like 8 in mine and it’s fine, though because it’s a little finicky about mount locations, paths are longer than they really need to be. As I use them off the desktop that isn’t a major blocker though.

Get your point about the restrictions though - I use it to remind me this is my workhorse, not a playground. There’s a server for that.

It comes with a configured distrobox and debian is one of the selectable distros, so you can use a Debian environment for anything you need too.

I’m debian on anything server based, but it’s fine for desktop use, and I see something like 95% compatability on steam games if that’s your thing.

Huh. See a police car around here and it’s “ey-up, they’ve found you.”

But I see you. Since kids I have found any phrase that is a song title (or key refrain) gets sung back to them just to be annoying too. Sometimes said track is immediately played in a vain attempt to not seem crazy.

Ha ha ha. By what mechanism? Turns out they don’t have any authority on my Linux boxes, and (almost) no one is choosing to use this, save your Dev hours boys.

I ran into something similar recently on a Debian NAS. It was something to do with the power management settings on the drive. Tweaked a couple of settings and the problem so far hasn’t arisen again 2+ months later.

Quest 3 was stunning at release for the price. They just can’t help but fuck about with things though. Barely use it now because of all the world’s shit cluttering it up. So fine jack up the prices. I’m just waiting on the Frame.

I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that “0.6 % Other” high.

Portugal runs a lot of technology/near-shore outsourcing for across Europe where English is still a common collaboration language, where Spain supports a lot of Tourists across the Eurozone, and generally supports those tourists in multiple languages.

I’d expect this contributes at least partially to the difference.

Maybe vasectomy clips count?